(a.) Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) This diagnosis was obscured by the absence of cutaneous, oropharyngeal, and respiratory involvement.
(2) Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described.
(3) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
(4) Juvenile diabetics appear to have fewer cutaneous abnormalities than adults who develop the disease, but the juvenile diabetic is not spared.
(5) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
(6) We have characterized previously a model of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection of rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) following cutaneous infection.
(7) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(8) Investigations in normal subjects demonstrate that the LLR is a reflex mediated by fast conducting muscle and cutaneous afferents.
(9) There was an isolated patient in whom IgA-CIC seemed to correlate with the clinical events of cutaneous and systemic involvement.
(10) A rare coincidence of cutaneous Rhinosporidiosis and Lepromatous leprosy is reported.
(11) Patients with a Bricker cutaneous ureteroileostomy will essentially benefit from this possibility.
(12) (4) Electrical stimulation by cutaneous devices or implants can give much benefit to some patients in whom other methods have failed and there are indications, not only from anecdote and clinical impression but also now from experimental physiology, that it may benefit by mechanisms of interaction at the first sensory synapse.
(13) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
(14) We have previously characterized the kinetics of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) production at cutaneous sites of allergic inflammation employing a blister-chamber model.
(15) No guidelines for the margin of resection of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma have been based on data measuring subclinical tumor extension, as have been formulated for basal cell carcinoma.
(16) Capillary neogenesis, probably in reaction to subclinical cutaneous vascularity, was detected in 59% of cases (86% of subjects presenting extra-articular rheumatism).
(17) We conclude that endothelial cell populations with different levels of collagen gene expression exist within cutaneous neurofibromas: some are actively expressing type I and VI collagen genes, whereas in other the expression of these genes is effectively down-regulated.
(18) Cutaneous lesions did not develop, and in the lymph nodes the average weight and number of treponemes detected were significantly lower than in normal and control hamsters.
(19) Thirty-four family members had cutaneous malignant melanoma, and 31 of these 34 also had histologically confirmed dysplastic nevi.
(20) In those patients not on steroids the results showed a good correlation with the cutaneous Kveim test.
Cutis
Definition:
(n.) See Dermis.
Example Sentences:
(1) The qualification for carrying on the isonicotinic acid hydrazide monotherapy in the tuberculosis cutis luposa and verrucosa is proved on the basis of bacteriological, pathologo-anatomical and clinical peculiarities of these forms of tuberculosis of the skin.
(2) Experiments were conducted comparing the relative contribution of internal and external cold stimuli in the initiation of horripilation (cutis anserina or "goose flesh") in men and women.
(3) Ten patients are presented who demonstrate a newly recognized association of macrocephaly with unusual angiomatosis and limb asymmetry in three somewhat similar cutaneous vascular disorders: Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome, the combination of Sturge-Weber anomaly with Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome, and cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita.
(4) Type I depends basically on malformation of the skin and retinaculum cutis.
(5) Polymorphonuclear granulocytes can be demonstrated in great numbers in any part of the involved cutis when there is an insect bite in history.
(6) Lymphadenosis cutis benigna with germinal center cell differentiation was clearly distinguishable from other B cell pseudolymphomas, which are considered to comprise mainly peripheral B lymphocytes.
(7) Pauline Kael, when reviewing the film, said, "Jane Fonda has been a charming, witty, nudie cutie in recent years, and now gets a chance at an archetypal character.
(8) The skin lesions were thus considered to be an unusual type of leukaemia cutis.
(9) However, quantitation of the elastin mRNA abundance by slot blot hybridizations revealed markedly reduced levels in all cutis laxa cell strains.
(10) Cutis laxa is a heterogeneous disease of elastic fibres, divided into three congenital and two acquired forms.
(11) Two cases of cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita are described in association with nevus flammeus and congenital glaucoma.
(12) Tissues in which concentrations were measured included cortical bone, spongy bone, muscle, fascia, cutis and subcutis.
(13) Cutaneous lymphoid hyperplasia, follicular B cell pseudolymphoma or lymphadenosis benigna cutis and lymphocytic infiltration of Jessner-Kanof are a group of benign lymphoid hyperplastic disorders which usually involve the skin of the face or head and neck.
(14) Osteoma cutis is a common sign of Albright hereditary osteodystrophy in infancy and childhood, and its significance should not be overlooked, even in the normocalcemic patient.
(15) This report deals with the description of a typical case of hyalinosis cutis et mucosae Urbach-Wiethe and with the clinical and histological differential diagnosis to erythropoetic protoporphyria.
(16) A form of aplasia cutis congenita occurs in association with placental infarcts or the in utero death of a twin fetus.
(17) This cell type constitutes the majority of cells in dermatofibroma or histiocytoma cutis resp.
(18) We report the first case of acral localized acquired cutis laxa.
(19) Giant cerebriform intradermal nevus (GCIN) is a form of cutis verticis gyrata and may be associated with a number of systemic diseases.
(20) However, because of the lack of typical Reed-Sternberg cells and due to the presence of polymorphic cells with fine chromatin, regular nuclear borders and inconspicuous nucleoli, these cases were diagnosed cytologically as a benign lymphoproliferative disorder, pseudolymphoma cutis.